The American search engine Google to 200 million euros of copyright in taxes and taxes of 100 million euros profit undeclared, according to this source, a total of about 227.5 million euros of tax due and unpaid.
The rate of tax on corporate profits is 27.5% in Italy.
“Google respects the laws on taxation in each country where it operates. We continue to work with the relevant authorities,” a spokesman for Google, quoted by AFP.
The US multinational should receive notification from the Italian authorities today, according to the same judicial source.
In late December, the US group Apple agreed to pay over 300 million euros in Italy to pay off the accounts with the tax authorities after an investigation similar for tax fraud.
Apple Italia was accused by the tax authorities have not paid the tax on profits between 2008 and 2013, as Google in this new investigation.
Google and other US multinationals, like Amazon or Facebook, are regularly accused of wanting to escape the taxes, or in the States or in Europe, for example by choosing to settle in countries where taxation is more favorable to them.
Many of these multinational called into question, including Google and Amazon, defended themselves in November in the European Parliament, stating that took seriously their tax obligations.
MC // MSF
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